I'm not quite sure where it says in the whole OSS ethos that making a profit from OSS is against the rules. Redhat have been doing it for a while, as have IBM, and I'm sure Dell et al wouldn't be selling Linux PCs and servers if they weren't making money from doing so. Google have released the source to loads of different stuff as well so again I'm not sure exactly where you're coming from or why the insightful mod was awarded.
Apart from the millions of small to medium businesses and the thousands of large to gigantic corporations outside government ownership. But don't let reality get in the way of your 1980s-inspired bullshit.
That's because corporate officers treat the law as a business expense and if it's cheaper to ignore it and pay any penalties they may incur then that's what they do. Microsoft are a classic example of that (sorry shills but it's true). That means there's more money for the stockholders (which includes the aforementioned corporate officers).
The 3GS might be. The previous two versions were missing features that all the others had had for several years. But it looks pretty so that's a bonus.
In the UK at least the previous generations of police brought it on themselves through brutality, corruption and such charming practices as beating a confession out of a man with learning difficulties. I'm sure the police in your country have shot themselves in the foot in a similar way. The politicians have only reacted to police misbehaviour. They wouldn't never have done anything to the police if the police had not thrown away the public's trust.
I like the apps idea and that's probably why it's so popular. It did make me laugh to see the ads for the 3GS saying how amazing being able to record video was. My first thought was "well done for being 7 years behind the times".
It's the colossal hypocrisy of the United States establishment criticising Chavez after all the shit they encouraged in the past that tends to stick in the throat.
How do you know it would have worked? You can't say that government-forced lending to people who couldn't afford mortgages in America was a huge mistake however when it was done in the UK it was just the market working as it should be. Let's be sensible here. This whole mess was a combination of bad government and bad corporate governance, not just the lefties trying to undermine capitalism.
Do you think there never would have been another recession? By the way Barclays survived thanks to a major injection of cash from the Abu Dhabi royal family which I'm sure has plenty of strings attached too.
Speaking as someone who actually uses the NHS, unlike you and Daniel Hannan, I'm really happy with my evil socialised healthcare and am a much healthier person thanks to it.
And I'll say to you again, there is no such law in the UK and yet the banks were quite happy to engage in similar stupid practices, assuming that the market would always go up, which is a totally moronic assumption. Nobody forced our banks to lend to people who couldn't afford it - they fell over themselves to do it. So the GLOBAL financial crisis was not down to the Democrats' law but to poor oversight in general.
I understand that part. I'm just not sure how the sub-prime lending law was the cause of it. After all, damaging though it must have been to the US economy, it wouldn't have had such a dramatic global effect without those toxic financial instruments, and, as far as I understand it, those were a completely private sector invention that decent oversight would have prevented.
I doubt though the global financial crisis is as simple as either of us think though and keeping a very close eye on all the greedy fools would be in everyone's interests.
Just as a point as well: the UK doesn't have any such law and yet our financial institutions were doing very stupid things like sub-prime mortgages, easy to obtain debt consolidation loans, 125% mortgages etc etc. What we did have though was a similar relaxing of bank governance allowing them to do stupid risky things.
Just out of interest which government legislation forced banks throughout the world to bundle crappy mortgages up with good ones and sell them on?
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So do many many private companies. I live in the land of the Private Finance Initiative and there have been so many private companies fucking up government contracts it's not funny.
I didn't realise all crimes resulted in a custodial sentence - especially when the perpetrator, thanks to corporate personhood, does not physically exist.
Stupid in your opinion. But then you obviously haven't had any problem getting healthcare, else I'm sure your opinion would be different. "Socialised" medicine hasn't ruined the economies of any of the other countries that it exists in, why is it somehow stupid to have it in your country. Or do you think that you'll always be able to afford (or have your company pay for) your healthcare?
And you have a very low opinion of people in general. I'm guessing that people you consider stupid have much better lives than yours and you resent it.
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I'm not quite sure where it says in the whole OSS ethos that making a profit from OSS is against the rules. Redhat have been doing it for a while, as have IBM, and I'm sure Dell et al wouldn't be selling Linux PCs and servers if they weren't making money from doing so. Google have released the source to loads of different stuff as well so again I'm not sure exactly where you're coming from or why the insightful mod was awarded.
Apart from the millions of small to medium businesses and the thousands of large to gigantic corporations outside government ownership. But don't let reality get in the way of your 1980s-inspired bullshit.
That's because corporate officers treat the law as a business expense and if it's cheaper to ignore it and pay any penalties they may incur then that's what they do. Microsoft are a classic example of that (sorry shills but it's true). That means there's more money for the stockholders (which includes the aforementioned corporate officers).
The 3GS might be. The previous two versions were missing features that all the others had had for several years. But it looks pretty so that's a bonus.
And all the tech support will be handled by someone in Bangalore who has never seen the system and who just scraped 5.0 on IELTS.
In the UK at least the previous generations of police brought it on themselves through brutality, corruption and such charming practices as beating a confession out of a man with learning difficulties. I'm sure the police in your country have shot themselves in the foot in a similar way. The politicians have only reacted to police misbehaviour. They wouldn't never have done anything to the police if the police had not thrown away the public's trust.
I like the apps idea and that's probably why it's so popular. It did make me laugh to see the ads for the 3GS saying how amazing being able to record video was. My first thought was "well done for being 7 years behind the times".
But Microsoft are nowhere near in charge of this market unless I'm completely missing something.
That's SOP for most large organisations, public and private, since the people making the decisions usually have no idea what they're buying.
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At your house? Or in your organisation or on your battleship or any of the millions of places that Windows is used.
It's the colossal hypocrisy of the United States establishment criticising Chavez after all the shit they encouraged in the past that tends to stick in the throat.
How do you know it would have worked? You can't say that government-forced lending to people who couldn't afford mortgages in America was a huge mistake however when it was done in the UK it was just the market working as it should be. Let's be sensible here. This whole mess was a combination of bad government and bad corporate governance, not just the lefties trying to undermine capitalism.
Do you think there never would have been another recession? By the way Barclays survived thanks to a major injection of cash from the Abu Dhabi royal family which I'm sure has plenty of strings attached too.
Speaking as someone who actually uses the NHS, unlike you and Daniel Hannan, I'm really happy with my evil socialised healthcare and am a much healthier person thanks to it.
And I'll say to you again, there is no such law in the UK and yet the banks were quite happy to engage in similar stupid practices, assuming that the market would always go up, which is a totally moronic assumption. Nobody forced our banks to lend to people who couldn't afford it - they fell over themselves to do it. So the GLOBAL financial crisis was not down to the Democrats' law but to poor oversight in general.
I understand that part. I'm just not sure how the sub-prime lending law was the cause of it. After all, damaging though it must have been to the US economy, it wouldn't have had such a dramatic global effect without those toxic financial instruments, and, as far as I understand it, those were a completely private sector invention that decent oversight would have prevented.
I doubt though the global financial crisis is as simple as either of us think though and keeping a very close eye on all the greedy fools would be in everyone's interests.
Just as a point as well: the UK doesn't have any such law and yet our financial institutions were doing very stupid things like sub-prime mortgages, easy to obtain debt consolidation loans, 125% mortgages etc etc. What we did have though was a similar relaxing of bank governance allowing them to do stupid risky things.
Well done, you've just managed to be even more confusing than the original article.
Just out of interest which government legislation forced banks throughout the world to bundle crappy mortgages up with good ones and sell them on?
So do many many private companies. I live in the land of the Private Finance Initiative and there have been so many private companies fucking up government contracts it's not funny.
I didn't realise all crimes resulted in a custodial sentence - especially when the perpetrator, thanks to corporate personhood, does not physically exist.
You do realise that this is about Eastern MMORPGs appealing to Western players don't you?
Stupid in your opinion. But then you obviously haven't had any problem getting healthcare, else I'm sure your opinion would be different. "Socialised" medicine hasn't ruined the economies of any of the other countries that it exists in, why is it somehow stupid to have it in your country. Or do you think that you'll always be able to afford (or have your company pay for) your healthcare?
Turning the US into India or China isn't exactly a solution.
Which normal people would think is just a teensy little bit more important than whether ripping a DVD to XVid is legal or not.
And you have a very low opinion of people in general. I'm guessing that people you consider stupid have much better lives than yours and you resent it.